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The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference.

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

And I'd like to believe that's true, you know, kind of showing gay people in this kind of light and - where it's not about that, it's just about the characters for the first time, like those shows were.

I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.